How Do I Stop Incremental Naming In Media Library?

I want to upload revised images to the Media Library, although WordPress.com automatically adds incremental naming to the new image file URL, even when I permanently delete the old image first. This is so annoying as I have to constantly update any links to the images. i.e. photo-01.jpg becomes photo-011.jpg

Does anyone else find this annoying? Is there a work around? I am thinking of uploading my images to Dropbox instead, but would rather keep them all on WordPress.com

You would think that you just delete the original media library image and upload the new file, without wordpress automatically renaming it or having to manually change the file name every time. Very annoying.

WordPress uses mysql databases to hold all our data. When you "delete" a file from the media library, it is not immediately deleted, it is marked as not available and marked for deletion. The deletions happen on a schedule with databases. Generally if you delete a file and then wait 24 hours to upload the new one, then it will not append the name.

The second issue: If the original image you delete was uploaded in December of 2010, that file is in a folder with .../2010/12/. If you want to replace it with a new file you are uploading in March of 2011, the new file will be uploaded in .../2011/03/. All of our uploads are organized by year and date. So even if you could upload an image with the same name right away, unless it was uploaded in the exact same month as the original, the URL in your post or page would still be broken.